Great Quote by Thelma Schoonmaker

I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way…

— Alan Alda

You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over…

— Mike Leigh

I've always wanted to make an improv movie because I have so much experience in it.

— Matt Walsh

I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.

— Tcheky Karyo

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

— Ivan Reitman

I love improvisation. I mean, it's hard to edit, because things don't necessarily fall together - you have to find ways to give it…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes…

— Debra Granik

I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

— Patrice Leconte

My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly…

— Brett Morgen

Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.

— Abbas Kiarostami

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

— Michael Snow

The nice thing about a documentary, I think, is that so much of it is editing, too. You sort of get to keep making…

— Gillian Jacobs